Quotes About Athletics

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

The most important thing is definitely success on the tennis court. I know that if I win matches, everything else will fall into place, and the money and sponsors will follow.

The second I was on the tennis court, I had the structure I wanted. I was in complete control of what I was doing.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

Being a 6-foot-tall tennis player is not great for a girl's social life.

I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I'd be lucky to get a couple of points.

The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

It's incredible the muscle damage you do in a sprint. You don't see it after the line, because we're smiling. But if you see the tent that we're in straight afterwards, you just collapse.

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

The thing for me is - and one of the reasons I was never a fan of Goldberg in the beginning when everybody was like 'Oh, he's so good! - I was like, 'No, he's terrible, he's hurting people,' and there's nothing else. He just has three-minute matches.